Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-25
TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE.

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Iemp'cton, of Fargo; Public Examiner. Maj.
and Chas. N. Harris. of Aberdeen, for South
Dakota. The Governor nominated the follow
ing directors of Bismarck Penitentiary: W.
D. McCabe, of Jamestown; H. G. Plumley. Of
Fargo;T l. Shattuck, of Fargo; John Rus
sell, of Valley City. Mr.. Mckenzie. of Bis
marck, held over. The Council pissed the
following Council bills: Appropriating funds
to pay the deficiency duo militia; re; . ding
cities having exclusive control of the liquor
traffic; providing for collecting licenses of
foreigners conducting public laundries: pro-
viding for foreclosure of mortgages by action;
amending the law relating to rape; requiring,
nonresident plaintiffs to give security for
costs; providing for the taxation of bank.
stocks; fixing the time of independent school
credit is obtained on false pretense;
providing five trustees for the Plankinton
Normal School; q memorial for the division of
the Bismarck Land District joint resolution
relating to division and and admission. The
Council passed. House bills appropriating
$14,ONfor the improvement of the Sioux Falls
Prison; appropriating funds for the MAIN
tenance of the Sioux Falls Penitentiary; re-
ylslng the militia law and appropriating $500
Tor the expenses of tho Adjutant-General's
Office. At the evening session Council bills
passed requiring defendant to give bonds for
rent i'll certain cases; appropriating $3.50 to
Joanna Milton for services at the New Orleans
Exposition; appropriatins $4,000 for the ex-
penses of the Commissioners of Immigration;
requiring insurance companies to bring and
defend suits in the county where the loss Oc-
Cured. House bills passed providing o pen
atty for notaries public acting without an-
redemption of property sold for delinquent
taXes; On appropriation for the malnten-
ance Of the Grand Forks University reduced
to $4,000; appropriating $4,000 for Yer
million university; permitting county boards
ing SEE, COO for the maintenance of the Madi-
son normal school; providing not more than
fifty bushels of seed grain for each sufferer by
a fnr tbe @ e.G;, last year. +; II. ahpprsSp aaaa $4,000
school; appropriating slS5,Coo for buildings
and Improvements at the Yankton hospital
for the insane. The Governor vetoed tho bill
relating to the registration OF mar
RACES on account of uncertain phrase
propriating $92, coo bonds for additional build
ings at the Yankton hospital for the insane:
appropriating $685. 600 for an additional build
ing for the jamestown hospital for the insane:
approPriating $4,000 for the improvement of
the Sioux Falls penitentiary; prohibiting the
procurement of chattel mortgage applications
for insurance. The Governor vetoed the bill
requiring the recording of certain documents
OF probate court because of Indebtedness
The house passed council bills providing for
an allowance of 81, 800 for each Judge Of the
Supreme Court for travelling expenses an
nually; appropriating funds for the mainte-
nance of Brookings college; relating to county
mutual insurance companies; apPPropriatins
school of mlnes; providing five directors for
the Plankinton reform school; also appropri
ating 100000 bonds for the improvement of
the Bismarck penitentiary. At the evening
session the House went into Committee of the
Whole for consideration of general orders. A
number OF bills were passed on, and when the
question of the adoption of the report came up
there was considerable tilibustering, particu-
larly regarding the bill practically repeating
the gross earnings law. Tho house finally ad-
jOurned near midnight .
In the Council on the 10th, Council bills
passed allowing religious and educational in
corporations an increase Of directors to twenty
one; authorizing County Commissioner to
compromise delinquent taxes at not less than
one-quarter thereof; for the publication of
laws in newspapers; appropriating 100000
for improvements of jamestown Hospital for
the insane: increasing the Territorial Treas
urer's bond to $3.50, OG0; giving the Governors
Office 81 GOO annually for clerk hire, permit
ting the Governor to remove public examiners.
House bills passed. To insure better cduca-
ton of dentists; also relating to false pedi-
grees of animals; appropriating 5000
for finishing and improvements of the Vermil-
lion University; amending the Department of
Agricultural and Territorial Fairs; for sup
pressing pluero-pneumonia; for suppressing
County Bulldings; appropriatng $1,000 for
the encouragement Of horticulture. The
House continued the contest on the repeal of
the gross earnings law, and the friends of re-
roo1 F,,c ~ f~s, ~ ~1,1 Tho h11 will $1,000 go,
for passage in the regular order. The House
passed Council bills appropriating $4,000
bonds for the Springfield Normal School; per
uniting the funding of outstanding school
bonds; relating to cases Of foreclosure Of
mortgage by advertisements; regulating tho
practice of pharmacy.
The Governor vetoed the House bill relating
to a Soldiers Home at Hot Springs, the appro-
priation being inadequate and the Home not
needed.
The Council confirmed Templeton, Attorney
General, and Harris, Public Examiner. Maj.
Edwards nomination as Public Examiner was
withdrawn, and Estyler, of Fargo, appointed.
The Council confirmed the Bismarck peniten-
reform school board, Stevens. Of Plankinton;
Hammer, of Mitchell; Kinsella, of Kimball;
Anderson, of Volga; Distad. of Mitchell.
The sensation on the 18th, tho closing day
of the Legislature. was the contest in the
Council ovet tho Capitol building debt. Tho
bill was passed by Is to 9. 1t proposes the
redemption of outstanding warrants by S per
cent. ive-year funding warrants The Gov
ernor refused to sign it The matter was
finally compromised by making warrants pay
able only from funds created by tho sale of pro-
perty donated for the building Of the Capitol
Another contest occurred over the seed-grain
bill, appropriating $4,000 for sufferers by
drought last year. 1t was amended in several
respects by the Council and finally passed.
The Council confirmed the Governors nomin-
atoms, E. w. Caldwell and c. b. Price, COM
pliers of statutes, and Twombley. director of
Grand Forks University.
In the House q high license bill passed, the
Council making the minimum figure $500 and
maximum 81, 600. The House passed . large
number Of bills and the proceedings were
quite tame. The bill to pay G. W. Thompson
$1,000 for rebate freights on material used in
building the Capitol was defeated. The Coun-
Gil bill for a new revenue law died in the
House. Both house 8 held night sessions.
xPENsE OF H SESSION.
The general governments share Of the ex-
penses of the session is about $4,000. This
includes the per diem and mileage of men,
bers, pay of certain clerks and printing.
Secretary Mccormack has made o reuuisitlon